On today’s episode, we’re talking with Barrett Taylor, professor and coordinator of the higher education program at the University of North Texas. He studies the ways in which higher education interfaces with society, investigating topics including state politics and policy, the organization of academic work, and institutional inequality. Outside o…

Koritha Mitchell is is a public intellectual, a professor of English, a literary historian, an award-winning author and cultural critic, and as of last year she is also a member of the Hopkins Press Advisory Board. Her work has already had quite an impact both within the academy as well as in the larger public sphere. Her article "Identifying White…

On today's Hopkins Press Podcast, we talk with Kelly Ross (editor of Poe Studies) Elissa Zellinger (guest editor of the forthcoming special issue of Poe Studies), and Eliza Richards, author of Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle. This fall, a new special issue of Poe Studies — due out in Fall 2025 — celebrates 20 years of Eliza Rich…

On this episode of the Hopkins Press Podcast, we sat down in the library of the Hopkins Press offices with Milan Terlunen, author of an article in the new issue of Book History entitled “What We Can(’t) Know Before We Read: Towards a Theory of the Pre-Reading Environment." Dr. Terlunen coins this term, "the pre-reading environment" to talk about al…

Welcome to In Sacred Spaces, a three-episode series in which we visit spaces around New Click here for more about the episode...In Sacred Spaces 3: The Pier (with The House of Louboutin)By The HTR team

On this episode of The Hopkins Press Podcast, we introduce you to Kyla Kupferstein Torres, the new executive editor of Callaloo, the premier journal of literature, art, and culture of the African Diaspora. This year, she took the reins of from the founding editor of Callaloo, Charles H. Rowell, who founded Callaloo in 1976 and cultivated the journa…

Welcome to In Sacred Spaces, a three-episode series in which we visit spaces around New Click here for more about the episode...In Sacred Spaces 2: Grace Congregational Church of Harlem (with Nigel and Lisa Pearce)By The HTR team

Welcome to In Sacred Spaces, a three-episode series in which we visit spaces around New Click here for more about the episode...In Sacred Spaces 1: St James Presbyterian (With Derrick McQueen)By The HTR team

On today's episode, we talk with Scott Gelber, a professor of education who currently serves as chair of the Education Department at Wheaton College about his recent article for Review of Higher Education is titled "Does Academic Freedom Protect Pedagogical Autonomy?" and discuss the origins of the idea "academic freedom" and how it's considered re…

All through 2024, one of the most-read articles across all of the Hopkins Press journals has been "Exploring Undergraduate Research Experiences For Latinx College Students From Farmworker Families", published in the January-February 2022 issue of Journal of College Student Development. We talk with three authors of this multidisclipinary team—Sneha…

In this episode we talk with the authors of recent article that appears in Progress in Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education, and Action, titled "The Voices on Vax Campaign: Lessons Learned from Engaging Youth to Promote COVID Vaccination."This article tells the story of how several organizations, including the Hopkins Bloomberg School…

Speculative fiction author and children's literature scholar Gabriela Lee's recent article in Children's Literature Association Quarterly, "When the Shoe Doesn't Fit: Reading Cinderella as Colonial Children's Literature in the Philippines," went viral earlier this year on Hopkins Press social media. We kick off our new season of the Hopkins Press p…

Dr. Helene Hedian, Director of Clinical Education, Center for Transgender and Gender Expansive Health, discusses data a new study published in the February 2024 edition of Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved,"What Patients Want in a Transgender Center:Building a Patient-Centered Program." This article is free to read through the mon…

Our guest this week is Dr. Robert Karp. Dr. Karp is Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. A native Philadelphian, he is a graduate of Central High School, Muhlenberg College and Thomas Jefferson University Medical College, did his residency in pediatrics and fellowship in nutrition at New York Hospital/ Corn…

Our guest this episode is Scott Kushner, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Rhode Island's Harrington School of Communication and Media. His scholarship and teaching explore the ways overlooked media give shape to our everyday encounters with culture. his work has appeared in venues including Space & Culture, Converge…

Our guests this week are Dr. Mandy Savitz-Romer and Dr. Heather Rowan-Kenyon. Dr. Savitz-Romer is the Nancy Pforzheimer Aronson Senior Lecturer in Human Development and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is also the faculty lead of the school counseling strand of the Human Development and Education program. Dr. Heather Rowan…

On this episode, we are joined by Elizabeth Lanphier, a faculty member in the Ethics Center and in the Division of General and Community Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. She is a philosopher and bioethicist affiliated faculty in the University of Cincinnati departments of Pediatrics, Philosophy, and Women, Gender, and Se…

We are joined this episode by Jennifer Hochschild and David Beavers, both of Harvard University. Jennifer Hochschild is the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and professor of African and African American studies at Harvard University. Her recent books include Genomic Politics: How the Revolution in Genomic Science Is Shaping American Soci…

Our guest today is Dr Sahanika Ratnayake - a philosopher of psychiatry and medicine, whose work focuses on talking therapy. She is interested in what constitutes evidence for talking therapy, the ethics of therapy and the integration of therapy into healthcare systems. She is currently a researcher at the UK Council for Psychotherapy. She joined us…

Last month, the United States Post office announced its 2023 slate of stamp designs, which includes tributes to writers Toni Morrison and Ernest Gaines, both of whom died in 2019. Our guest today, Dr. Rafael Walker, recently published a paper in the journal Arizona Quarterly that examines there two extraordinary writers. He explores how Gaines' las…

Our guest today is Nicholas Tilmes, whose research focuses on the intersection of cognition, law, and technology, ranging from disability rights to neurotechnology and AI. He holds an M.A. in Bioethics from NYU and a B.A. in Philosophy & Psychology from Cornell University. He joins us today to discuss his paper published in the latest issue of the …

Our guest this week is Dr. Samuel Woolley, a researcher and writer who examines how emerging media tools are used for both democracy and control. He is a faculty member at the University of Texas at Austin and directs the Propaganda Research Lab at UT’s Center for Media Engagement. He has published four books, including the recently released Bots a…

Hopkins Press is honored to welcome to this podcast episode President of The New School in New York City, Dr. Dwight McBride. Dr. McBride is an accomplished higher education leader, educator, scholar, and author. Over nearly three decades in higher education, he has encouraged innovation in scholarship and teaching, launched initiatives to build in…

This week we are joined by Dr. Rebecca Natow, Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy at Hofstra University, where she is also the director of the Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies program. Dr. Natow is an expert on higher education policy and has conducted extensive research on the U.S. Department of Education’s rulem…

The Summer 2022 issue of Social Research, Books That Matter II, invited notable scholars to select one book that had a deep and lasting influence on their thinking and life. Joining us this episode is Dr. Wendy Doniger. Dr. Doniger is the Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago, Emerita…

Our guest today is Maria Ortiz-Myers. Maria is a doctoral candidate in library and information science at the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. Her research focuses on information practice, particularly collaborative information interactions and personally meaningful information experiences. The journal Li…

Dr. Clara Humpston is our guest this week, discussing her paper “Isolated by Oneself: Ontologically Impossible Experiences in Schizophrenia,” published in the latest issue of the journal Philosophy Psychiatry and Psychology.By Johns Hopkins University Press

Dr. Rachel Pruchno is an endowed professor of medicine at Rowan University and the director of research at the New Jersey Institute for Successful Aging. She joins Hopkins Press Acquisitions Editor Joe Rusko to discuss her book, Beyond Madness: The Pain and Possibilities of Serious Mental Illness.By Johns Hopkins University Press

Our guests this week are The Hopkins Review's Dora Malech and Kosiso Ugweuze. They joined us to talk about the literary journal's recent dramatic redesign, and what's in store for the publication's bright future. Dora Malech an associate professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and the new editor-in-chief of The Hopkins Review.…

Reading today is typically silent – whether reading a book in a library or reading Click here for more about the episode...The sounds of medieval books (with Andrew Albin)By How To Read

Joining us on this episode is Anne-Marie Gagné-Julien, a postdoctoral fellow at the Biomedical Ethics Unit at McGill University, also affiliated with École Normale supérieure (Paris). She holds a PhD in philosophy of science and psychiatry at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Dr. Gagné-Julien was recently named the 2021 winner of the Karl Jasper…

When you think about historical reenactment, you probably think about reenacting Civil War battles or Click here for more about the episode...Reenacting the past (with Catherine Grant)By How To Read

Our guest this week is Dr. Z Nicolazzo, an associate professor of Trans* Studies in Education at the University of Arizona, which resides on the unceded homelands of the Tohono O’odham and Pascua Yaqui peoples. Dr, Nicolazzo's paper, "Ghost Stories from the Academy: A Trans Feminine Reckoning" speaks to her experience as a trans woman in academia. …

We may think of reading and writing as opposite activities, but there’s a long history Click here for more about the episode...The history of homemade books (with Deidre Lynch)By The HTR team

In the Bible, the Apocalypse is the end of the world as we know it, Click here for more about the episode...Why apocalypse isn’t all bad (with Jennifer M. Wilks)By How To Read

The Journal of the History of Philosophy occasionally selects articles published in its pages for 30 minute podcast interviews with the author(s). The interviewer and interviewee are both specialists in the field, but the podcast focuses on the significance of the article for the general philosophical public.In this episode, Peter Adamson (LMU Muni…

Music can tell stories in a variety of ways: operas and musicals have characters and Click here for more about the episode...Musical storytelling with repurposed texts (with Randall Eng)By How To Read

Our guest this month is Dr Freeden Blume Oeur, author of Black Boys Apart: Racial Uplift and Respectability in All-Male Public Schools from University of Minnesota Press. Dr. Blume Oeur was Guest Editor for the most recent issue of the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, and joins us today to discuss the special issue commemorating the 1…

During the Cold War, the US and Chinese governments didn’t drop bombs on each other, Click here for more about the episode...The hidden politics of translation (with Lamyu Maria Bo)By How To Read

Joining us today for a conversation about the history and ethics of vaccine mandates is Dr. James Colgrove, a Professor of Sociomedical Sciences at the Columbia Mailman School of Public Health, and the Dean of the Premedical Program at the Columbia School of General Studies.By Johns Hopkins University Press

Can love be an unhealthy addiction? If you can't kick the habit (or heartbreak) cold turkey, can science help? On this episode, we are joined by Dr. Brian Earp. Dr. Earp is the Associate Director of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy at Yale University and is a Research Fellow at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the Univ…

A one-sided relationship is a bad relationship, right? Not necessarily, says Elaine Auyoung. She’s interested Click here for more about the episode...One-sided relationships (with Elaine Auyoung)By How To Read

What we notice about someone else’s language is less to do with language itself than Click here for more about the episode...Language and injustice in the classroom (with Nelson Flores)By How To Read

Joining us today is Molly Robson - a researcher, writer and photographer based in Wellington, New Zealand. Molly recently completed her Master’s thesis at Victoria University of Wellington, which explored how listeners engaged with podcasting during the pandemic, and sought to understand the affective dimensions of the fast-growing medium. Molly's …

Joining us today is Dr. Bruce Schulman. Dr. Schulman is the William E. Huntington Professor of History at Boston University, and has authored three books: From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt (N.Y.: Oxford University Press, 1991); Lyndon B. Johnson and American Liberalism (Boston: Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press, 1994); and The Seventies: The Great Shif…

Dr. Leland Tabares is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Loyola University New Orleans. Prior to this position, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of Contemporary American Literature at Washington University in St. Louis and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His latest pa…

On this episode, we are joined by University of Cincinnati Assistant Professor of Education, Dr. Antar Tichavakunda. Dr. Tichavakunda received his Ph.D. in Urban Education Policy from the University of Southern California. Born and raised in Washington, DC, he is a product of DC Public Schools and earned his Bachelor of Arts in Education Studies fr…

On this episode: Jennifer Davis and Sandie Holguín, Editors of the award winning Journal of Women's History, join us to talk about the journal's recent cover redesign, new editorial website, and podcast.By Johns Hopkins University Press

On this episode, we are joined by Deborah Stevenson, Editor of the Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books. The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books provides concise summaries and critical evaluations of current children's books. This invaluable resource assists readers with questions regarding the ever-evolving children's literature fie…

Chronic pain is pain that lasts for months, years or even a lifetime, and doctors Click here for more about the episode...Understanding chronic pain (with Travis Chi Wing Lau)By How To Read